Publications Based on SOEP Data: SOEPlit

´Phillips Curve´ or ´Wage Curve´ - Is there really a puzzle? Evidence for West Germany

Wage Dynamics and Unemployment in Germany: Evidence from Regional Panel Data

Performance-Related Pay and Earnings Dynamics in West Germany: A GEE-Type Approach to a Two-Equation Panel Data Model with Continous and Limited Dependent Variables

The changing shape of class-voting. An individual-level analysis of party support in Britain, Germany and Switzerland

Remodelling Class to Make Sense of Service Employment: Evidence for Britain and Germany

This paper presents a novel class schema that aims at responding to the analytical challenge of an increasingly tertiarized, skill-intensive and feminized employment structure. For this matter, the traditional vertical class criterion distinguishing between more or less advantageous employment relationships is complemented by a horizontal criterion. The horizontal criterion’s purpose is to separate ...

Occupational Change in Europe: How Technology and Education Transform the Job Structure

Welfare regimes and change in the employment structure: Britain, Denmark and Germany since 1990

Welfare states are often reduced to their role as providers of social protection and redistribution. In 1990, Esping-Andersen argued that they also affect employment creation and the class structure. We analyse the stratification outcomes for three welfare regimes – Britain, Germany and Denmark – over the 1990s and 2000s. Based on individual-level surveys, we observe a disproportionate increase among ...

Does Unemployment Hurt Less if There Is More of It Around?: A Panel Analysis of Life Satisfaction in Germany and Switzerland

This paper examines the existence of a habituation effect to unemployment: Do the unemployed suffer less from job loss if unemployment is more widespread, if their own unemployment lasts longer and if unemployment is a recurrent experience? The underlying idea is that unemployment hysteresis may operate through a sociological channel: if many people in the community lose their job and remain unemployed ...

Upgrading or Polarization? Occupational Change in Britain, Germany, Spain and Switzerland

We analyze occupational change over the last two decades in Britain, Germany, Spain and Switzerland: which jobs have been expanding – high-paid jobs, low-paid jobs or both? Based on individual-level data, four hypotheses are examined: skillbiased technical change, routinization, skill supply evolution and wage-setting institutions. Our analysis reveals massive occupational upgrading which closely matches ...

The type to train? Impacts of personality characteristics on further training participation

Personality traits drive behaviors and attitudes, and determine socio-economic life outcomes for individuals. This paper investigates the relationship of six personality traits, the Big Five and Locus of Control, to individual participation in employment-related further education and training (FET) in a longitudinal perspective. Initial research suggests that training is a crucial determinant of life ...